Solid and sobering reporting from my dear friend and Scripps fellows colleague @karadaniellefox edition.cnn.com/2024/10/04/m...

Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon the ‘most intense aerial campaign’ outside Gaza in last two decades | CNN

Israel has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign over the last two weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people from t...

My latest: Inside the growing chasm between self-described green companies and the climate-blocking trade groups they help fund. We take a look at Chipotle, Marriott, Hilton and more. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hilton, Marriott and Chipotle Bankroll Climate Opposition, Despite Green Claims

The companies belong to industry trade groups that are opposing pivotal legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Colorado.

Update: According to NOAA, which runs NCEI, the building in Asheville currently has electricity but no running water. Also, the center's network connection is down, an outage expected to last days.

Keep thinking about Nick Cave's admiration for Kris Kristofferson and the rather humourous lines in the surreal song and oddly joyful song, Frogs, on Cave's new album: "Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can/ In a shirt he hasn't washed for years/ Hop inside my coat..." youtu.be/rNfrLoQdB_E?...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Frogs (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Number five in this thread is using the rhetoric of number four.

Sean O'Hagan: Well, 'freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,' as the great Kris Kristofferson put it. Nick Cave: Sean, exactly! Fuck, I love that song. (From the book 'Faith, Hope, and Carnage'; Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan in a series of conversations during the peak pandemic years.)

Rough few days, so yeah.

Thank you for this, Emily. Sending to friends in the path, including a therapist who's own home was inundated this past week.

I wrote this for @sciam.bsky.socialwww.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How Hurricanes Batter Mental Health

Hurricanes and other disasters exact a mental health toll that can persist without strong communities and support networks

I'm familiar with Carr's model. Thank you for this.